Santa Claus is taking center stage for this Christmas nail design! I did a Santa and Rudolph Nail Art last year. For 2011, they made solo appearances on my nails. Check out Rudolph in my Reindeer Nail Art, where I featured him on my left thumb and gave him a girl friend! This time, Santa Claus takes over.
Santa Claus Nail Art Design by Simply Rins
If you have been following this nail art blog for awhile, you might have noticed how fond I am of painting a design on all my nails. But I have been receiving emails asking me if some of my designs would work if only painted on one nail. I would always answer with a yes. This Santa Claus nail art is an example. I understand that there are instances wherein you don't want your nails to attract that much attention. An accent nail is a good solution.
I wanted a wear a basic red for this design and as I look into my stash, I was lucky to find OPI Tazmanian Devil Made Me Do It. I wore this in 2 coats on my nails, except for the accent nail where I used 2 coats of Orly Pure Porcelain as skin tone base for Santa. Everything else was painted using acrylic paints and a detailing nail art brush.
I was supposed to leave the other nails plain but I wanted to subdue the basic red polish. So I decided to add 3 white stripes on each nail using a striping nail art brush. The stripes was subtle enough not to overpower the Santa Claus accent nail and enough to tone down the bright red polish.
Polka dots is another option for the other nails. I would suggest small dots that are relatively far apart so that Santa Claus would still remain the highlight of your nails.
I made a video nail art tutorial for this Santa Claus nail art. Perhaps you would like to try it for your Christmas nail design. Here it is:
Thank you for watching! I hope you liked this freehand Christmas nail design that features Santa Claus. If you're wearing a Santa nail art, it is actually a good reminder to always stay nice ... or else! ;)
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This looks adorable but I have always been partial to Santa:D
Santa is so cute! He looks so Jolly and his rough is darling!
Btw...I picked you for the Top 10 Award!
http://chromacraze.blogspot.com/2011/12/top-10-award.html
love it!(:
Absolutely adorable! I really like the accent nail, and your stripes are so evenly spaced on the rest of your nails, I'm jealous, I can never get my spacing to look that good.
Oh, Santa is so pretty!!
Hi, Emm!
As a child, I never really believed in Santa Claus. But I love what he represents and I think that's the most important thing. :)
Hi, ChromaCraze!
Thank you for the award. :)
Hi, Anita!
That's why I love working with acrylic paints. If I'm not satisfied with a stroke, I can easily erase and do it again! Thank you for appreciating my efforts to make my designs as perfect or as neat as I can. :)
Thanks, girls for all your wonderful comments. :)
I'll try it soon:)! I love your nail arts<3 You're ma inspiration for a long long time.
I love your Santa, he is soooo cute :D And thanks for the tutorial!! ;D
Hi, Ewalucja!
That is so sweet of you. Thank you and I am deeply touched. :)
you always make all of your characters look so adorable! <3 santa's so adorable with blushing cheeks pa!
Hi! It's the first time I see your designs and I tried this one at once. Totally love it! Your tutorial was easy to follow, thank you very much! Sorry if my english isn't perfect. I'm from Sweden and my english isn't the best.
Hi, Smarla!
Thanks! It's always nice to have something adorable to look at everytime, so I try to come up with such nail designs. The world needs "adorable" nowadays. :P
Hi, Maya!!
Thank you and welcome to my blog! I'm sure your Santa nails are pretty. How's the Christmas season there in Sweden? :)
awesome, as always, i love your work :-D
it looks soo cute ! you're really good ! I made this one too, i'll put it on my blog asap :)
Ahw! Santa is so... In my language you say BUFFO, the English translation is "funny" but it's not exactly what I suppose to think about it: it's funny but cute, in a good way, of course! Great! ;D
Hi iam from greece!!! i try to make my nails like yours!!! i want to see more cute nail designs!! You are fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!
kristina
This is to let you know that I read all your comments and I'm really appreciate the effort of leaving a message here.
Hmm, I always have hesitations for painting Santa on my nails because I feel I'm not doing him any justice. My nails are really slim and Santa would always appear thin. :( I still have to find a way around that problem. But I'm happy I got to paint him this year because like I said, I really love what he represents. That's more important, right? :)
Santa is amazing! When I was a child I didn't believe in him, I've ever known that he doesn't exist, but that wasn't a problem for me, I lived everything as a legend you can decide or not if you want to believe in, something like Atlantis, or UFO, for example. :D
Plus, I love winter, I love xmas, I love the atmosphere in december, I love the lights, the trees. Even my cat loves them, for my "pleasure" (this night she played with balls ALL NIGHT LONG!!! XD)
Your santa is perfect, even with thin nails, don't worry, I think the skinny santa has a better tridimensional effect for this reason ;D
i can't say enough how good u r!!
Thank you for sharing this little tutorial. Now I can make a new nail art design on my own. I just wish that I can do it perfectly.
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